The Apache HttpComponents project is pleased to announce 5.5-alpha1 release of HttpComponents Core.
This is the first ALPHA release in the 5.5 release series that improves performance and robustness of connection pool implementations, further improves HTTP/2 specification conformance and introduces JSON message content bindings based on Jackson version 2. This release also includes all the fixes from the stable 5.4 branch. Notable changes and features included in the 5.5 series: * Connection pool implementation improvements. * HTTP message stream APIs and support for HTTP/2 message stream timeout. * SSLContexts to respect system properties by default. * Cap pending HTTP/2 request commands per connection. * HPACK RFC 7540 / RFC 7541 / HTTP/2 RFC 9113 conformance improvements. * JSON message content bindings Compatibility notes: * HTTP requesters and servers take into account SSL/TLS system properties by default. Download - <http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi> Release notes - <http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpcore/RELEASE_NOTES-5.5.x.txt HttpComponents site - <http://hc.apache.org/> About HttpComponents Core HttpCore is a set of HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 transport components that can be used to build custom client and server side HTTP services with a minimal footprint.
